THE WAR ON BAD PHILOSOPHY is Porphyrogenitus's description of the central problem I've been following under the Fourth Turning Alert rubric, most recently focusing on the sloppy thinking in much of the academy. This Counter Revolutionary post makes an important suggestion: Good Intentions are irrelevant. An argument that begins with the assertion that the policy being advocated is being advocated to solve a problem is a non-argument. Den Beste has weighed in on the accumulating divergence of reality from hopes in some parts of the academy, although Mean Mr. Mustard, at the south end of the druid belt, sees the weight of the evidence moving the balance only slightly, if at all. Power Line also sees plenty of hysteresis in the academy.